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when a death causes fights over inheritance between the Oslo and Bergen branches of the powerful Falck family.
Nat Reeve Nettleblack Cipher Press, 10th, £12.99, 9781917008082
Début Queer neo-Victo- rian farce told
through journal entries and letters in which Welsh heiress Henry Nettleblack evades betrothal in a chaotic small rural detective agency.
Jordan Peele Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror Picador, 3rd, £11.99, 9781035040308 Writer and director of “Get Out” and “Nope” gathers these new stories of Black American horror, combining the terrors of the super- natural but also our chilling reality.
Bryan Washington Family Meal Atlantic Books, 3rd, £9.99, 9781838954468 When Cam’s world falls apart he returns home to his adopted family to work at a gay bar in a changing city, but their different paths fuel love and pain. “Defiant, compassionate, decent and profoundly human,” said the TLS.
Hideo Yokoyama, Louise Heal Kawai (trans) The North Light Riverun, 10th, £9.99, 9781529411164 A Japanese architect who designed an award- winning residence in the shadow of Mount Asama is horrified to discover it lies empty, save a single chair, and sets out to discover why his master- piece has been rejected.
Poetry Laurie Lee
Collected Poems Penguin Modern Classics, 3rd, £8.99, 9780241625187
Martin Shaw Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass Chelsea Green Publish- ing, 24th, £11.99, 9781915294630 Acclaimed mythologist and wilderness guide Shaw retells three ancient myths that serve as metaphors for our world today.
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Literary short stories
story anthology The Haunting Season. Twelve ghost stories from contemporary writers at the top of their game all centred around Christmas or Advent. Writers featured are: Bridget Collins, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Natasha Pulley, Jess Kidd, Andrew Michael Hurley, Elizabeth Macneal, Laura Purcell, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Stuart Turton and Catriona Ward.
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Crime & thriller
David Baldacci A Calamity of Souls Pan, 24th, £9.99, 9781035035601 A racially-charged murder case in 1960s southern Virginia.
Lili Hayward A Midwinter’s Tail Sphere, 17th, £9.99, 9781408733677 Mina’s life changes when her godfather invites her to house- sit and cat-sit on a Cornish island.
Sarra Manning The Man of Her Dreams Hodder Paperbacks, 24th, £9.99, 9781399707879 Sexy, funny Theo seems to have appeared from Esme’s dreams.
Aurora Ascher
Sanctuary of the Shadow Penguin, 3rd, £9.99, 9781804994948 A fantastic circus hides stories and allegiances in this enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance.
Jacquie Bloese The Secret Photographs Hodder Paperbacks, 3rd, £9.99, 9781529377408 Women photographers defy expectations in late-Victorian Brighton. Previously published in hardback as The Golden Hour.
Various The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights Sphere, 3rd, £9.99, 9781408727591 Sequel to the ghost
Barbara Havelocke Estella’s Revenge Hera, 17th, £9.99, 9781804367056 Miss Havisham’s daughter is the subject of this dark retelling of Great Expectations.
Alexander McCall Smith The Perfect Passion Company Polygon, 3rd, £9.99, 9781846976902 For lonely hearts tired of meeting online, Edinburgh’s New Town hosts a new dating company.
Alexandra Benedict The Christmas Jigsaw Murders Simon & Schuster Adult Fiction, 24th, £9.99, 9781398525405 A sinister jigsaw puzzle provides the key in the third Christmas mystery from Benedict.
Julie Corbin Your Best Friend Hodder Paperbacks, 3rd, £9.99, 9781529371222 Tess wonders if she ever knew her teenage best friend at all.
Jessica Bull Miss Austen Investigates Michael Joseph, 10th, £8.99, 9781405956680
Début Jane Austen turns sleuth
when a milliner is murdered during a ball and her brother Georgy is suspected. First in a series.
Menna van Praag Child of Earth and Sky Penguin, 17th, £9.99, 9781804991138 A war wages in Luna, who is part star-soldier and part Grimm, with consequences for the world. Third book in the Sisters Grimm series.
One to Watch
A comprehensive collection of Lee’s poetry, including previously unpublished works taken from his archive at the British Library. A moving preface by Lee’s daughter frames the collection, explaining that though Lee is most famous for prose and
his autobiographical book Cider with Rosie, published in 1959, he was first and foremost a poet. Here, too, the key subjects of his autobiographical work stand large, from the natural world in rural Gloucestershire to the shadows of war in 1930s Spain.
Reissue
Norah Lofts Lady Living Alone British Library Women Writers, 3rd, £9.99, 9780712355124
One to Watch
Penelope Shadow, a romance writer, must summon the strength of her feisty heroines to navigate surprises and challenges in her personal life, in this rediscovered Lofts novel from 1945. No text was available to read ahead of
the preview deadline, but I’ve loved several of Lofts’ other books and a “long and vivid journey” is promised from this reissued novel. Prominent among Lofts’ writer fans are Alison Weir and Cathy Rentzenbrink.
Linda Calvey Faith Mountain Leopard Press, 24th, £9.99, 9781802794793 Gangland crime thriller set in the 1960s.
Marc Cameron Tom Clancy: Command and Control Sphere, 24th, £8.99, 9781408727874 President Jack Ryan travels to Columbia in
Alex Gray
Out of Darkness Sphere, 24th, £8.99, 9781408729304 DSI William Lorimer is put in peril in Zimbabwe in the 21st book in the series.
Sophie Hannah Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night HarperFiction, 24th, £9.99, 9780008380809
Fergus Craig Murder at Crime Manor Sphere, 31st, £9.99, 9781408731833 Second book in the parody crime series sees Exeter’s Detective Roger LeCarre on the trail of a murderer, despite he himself standing over the victim with a weapon in his hand. Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.
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